Longitudinal study on vocabulary development of infants aged 10 to 18 months : Centering on infants' communicative gestures and temperament

Shin, Ae Sun; Kim, Young Sil

doi:10.18023/kjece.2016.36.1.012

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“…Given these limitations, the current study aims to help fill some of the gaps in our knowledge of gesture use in South Korea. First, previous studies have examined Korean children's gesture production during a structured interaction with an experimenter in a laboratory setting (Shin & Kim, 2016), making it difficult to know the general patterns of mothers' and children's gesture use in a naturalistic interaction setting that more closely resembles children's everyday experiences. Furthermore, although Choi and Lee (2018) examined a more naturalistic playtime interaction between mothers and children, they did not report any details on gesture use (e.g., frequencies of total gesture and different gesture categories), making it difficult to fully understand their findings on the relation between gesture use and language outcomes.…”

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Early gesture use predicts children’s language development in South Korea: New evidence supporting the cross‐cultural importance of pointing

Shin,

Rowe,

Lee

2024

Infancy

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Research in the U.S. and other Western countries shows that children’s early gesture use, which starts prior to verbal communication, is an important predictor of children’s later language development. Despite increasing efforts to study gesture use in diverse contexts, most of our knowledge on the role of gesture is largely based on populations of Western countries. In this study, we add to the growing body of international research by examining gesture use by 31 mothers and their 14‐month‐old infants (12 girls) in South Korea and investigate the gestures used during interaction, and whether early gesture use at 14 months predicts Korean children’s later language skills at 36 months. The results showed that in addition to using gestures observed in other cultural contexts, Korean mother‐child dyads used culturally specific gesture (i.e., bowing), showing an early sign of socialization that starts with preverbal children. In addition, Korean infants’ index‐finger pointing, but not showing and giving, predicted their later receptive and expressive vocabulary skills at 36 months, providing additional support for the importance of pointing in early language development.

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Early gesture use predicts children’s language development in South Korea: New evidence supporting the cross‐cultural importance of pointing

Shin,

Rowe,

Lee

2024

Infancy

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Communicative Gestures in Prelinguistic Periods as Predictors of Later Language Development in Korean Toddlers

Choi¹,

Lee²

2018

Commun Sci Disord

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Objectives:The use of communicative gestures in the prelinguistic period is closely related to later language development. This study aimed to examine whether communicative gestures used in the prelinguistic period predict later language development at 24 months of age in Korean toddlers. Methods: The participants were 42 toddlers age 12-18 months who participated in the Korean edition of the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile (CSBS DP) standardization study and also participated in a followup study for tracking language development at 24 months of age. The behavior samples for measuring communicative gestures during the prelinguistic periods were the behavior samples that were collected through the CSBS DP. The total frequency of gestures, the number of gesture types, the frequency of gestures by category, and the frequency of each gesture type were measured. Language ability at 24 months was measured according to receptive language age and expressive language age using SELSI and number of expressive vocabulary words using K M-B CDI. Results: The total frequency of gestures, the frequency of deictic gestures among three gesture categories, and the frequency of pointing gestures among the gesture types in the prelinguistic period predicted the receptive language age, the expressive language age, and the number of expressive vocabulary words at 24 months of age. The frequency of conventional gestures predicted receptive language age as well. Conclusion: The results showed that the communicative gestures, especially the total frequency of communicative gestures, frequency of deictic category gestures, and pointing gestures predicted later language development. We discuss the implications for early identification of toddlers with developmental language delay.

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Longitudinal study on vocabulary development of infants aged 10 to 18 months : Centering on infants' communicative gestures and temperament

Cited by 2 publications

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Early gesture use predicts children’s language development in South Korea: New evidence supporting the cross‐cultural importance of pointing

Early gesture use predicts children’s language development in South Korea: New evidence supporting the cross‐cultural importance of pointing

Communicative Gestures in Prelinguistic Periods as Predictors of Later Language Development in Korean Toddlers

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